The girl hurried through the silent forest. Well, the plot of the thriller Bad Street. But in this film, if you can memorize the clues in the film one by one and stitch them together, you will find that such a scene is arranged at the beginning of the film and has a special image.
If there's one word that sums up the motivations of the characters throughout the movie, it's - transformation. Moths need to turn from larvae into cocoons, and then become moths to break out of the cocoon. Sterling has transformed from an excellent student to a senior FBI agent. Buffalo Bill wants to ditch his male body and transform into a woman. Dr. Chitton wants to use Hannibal to transform himself into a powerful man. There is no doubt that the big forest represents the power of primitiveness and nature in human consciousness. From the forest to the school to the city, the director placed this primitive power at the beginning of the film, no doubt to tell us that the transformation or evolution of the film , from the very first moment.
Beside the heroine Stellan, there is always a strong atmosphere of sexual implication. At the beginning, it was time for Sterling to go to the instructor Crawford, and she was surrounded by men in the elevator. While visiting Hannibal in a mental hospital, he was molested by Max using foul language. During the autopsy at the funeral home, she faced a roomful of male police officers. On the way back from the autopsy, he and Crawford reclined on the same seat back. When I took the cocoon to the entomologist for parting, I was stared at by the assistant. These details correspond to another important character in the film, Dr. Hannibal Lake.
Mention "Silence of the Lambs" and the name Hannibal will undoubtedly come to mind. Cruel and bloodthirsty, yet elegant and erudite, it subverts the image of a perverted ogre in people's minds, and also subverts the image of a senior psychology doctor in people's minds. In the movie, Hannibal is deified, he is the embodiment of absolute rationality. When we met for the first time, Hannibal in front of the audience was completely different from the perverted murderers in the mouths of Chitton, Barney and Crawford. He was polite and the first sentence was "good morning". Contrary to the rude, filthy madness of other criminals, the bright and tidy rooms stand in stark contrast to the gloomy prison. He loves painting, he loves specific scenes, he loves reading, and he plays Bach on loops. When Sterling met him for the first time, Hannibal still had a sense of resistance. He guessed Sterling, but he didn't guess the mystery in Sterling's subconscious. It was this confusion that became the catalyst for Hannibal's transformation.
We mentioned that Hannibal's rationality contrasts with the sexual consciousness of other male characters. Hannibal hates and even hates the low-level human desires of sex. From the perspective of a bystander, he believes that Crawford promoted Sterling because Sterling attracted Crawford. This point, from the end of the film Sterling and Crawford The ring on the ring finger of the right hand when Germany shakes hands can be guessed one or two. On the other hand, Hannibal used psychological hypnosis to kill Banks who used foul language to molest Sterling, which further confirms Hannibal's This almost pathological advanced rational spirit.
The inner transformation of Dr. Hannibal begins with the inner analysis of Sterling. He believes that Sterling's lack of self-confidence and humility stemmed from the sexual assault he encountered when he was a child. When he realized that he guessed wrong, he became very interested in this girl, and he proposed to use Sterling's life experience to exchange information on Buffalo Bill. , to learn about Sterling's past. When he heard that Sterling lost her father at a young age, moved to a relative's farm, and ran away overnight, he asked Sterling why. Sterling told him that it was because her relatives wanted to kill the sheep. She heard the sheep’s screams and felt pity for the sheep, so she ran away with a sheep in her arms. It is also inevitable that he will be killed, which has also become a knot in Sterling's heart. This kind of knot is also projected on Sterling's obsession with the Buffalo Bill case. She wants to save the missing girl at all costs in order to complete her childhood redemption. After the story of "Silence of the Lambs" was told, Dr. Hannibal's heart also changed. When submitting the file, he and Sterling's index fingers touched each other. This was God's way of enlightening Adam, and it also represented Sterling's love for Hannibal. enlightenment inspiration. Sterling's almost tragic Purdue thought gave Hannibal a different view of human psychology. He lied to Chiaton and the Senate, but told Sterling the truth about Buffalo Bill. Afterwards, he drew a sketch of Sterling holding the lamb and looking out. The snow-white paper made Sterling look like Mary descending Jesus. He specially reminded the prison guards who placed the dinner not to stain my drawing. After Hannibal killed the prison guard, he was placed at the mercy of Jesus, which also implied the idea of Jesus willing to suffer and redeem the world in Christianity.
Finally, why did Dr. Hannibal choose to escape? When he and Sterling first met, he said, I have been imprisoned for eight years, and will be imprisoned for the rest of my life. I only have memories and no views. This shows that Hannibal at that time was pessimistic about the outside world. When the two met again in the new prison, Sterling brought a painting of Hannibal being taken away. At the same time, Sterling's story evoked Hannibal's idea of view, which not only refers to the specific scene of the external world, but also It refers to Hannibal's subjective view of the world, and the sentence "Thank you, Cleese" is the best proof for this.
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